Ronald B. Herzman
VITA 2013
[email protected]
EDUCATION:
BA Manhattan College, 1965
MA University of Delaware, 1967
PhD University of Delaware, 1969
LHD (honoris causa) Manhattan College, 1991
EXPERIENCE:
State University of New York, College at Geneseo
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, 1989-present
Chair, 1994-1997
Acting Chair, 1986, 2005
Professor, 1983-89
AssociateProfessor,1978-83
Assistant Professor, 1969-78
National Endowment for the Humanities
Assistant Director, Division of Fellowships and Seminars, 1984-85
Program Officer: Summer Seminars for School Teachers, 1982-85
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM,
Guest Tutor, Summer 1994, 1997
Georgetown University
Professorial Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1983-85
Attica Correctional Facility
Adjunct Professor of Literature, (through Genesee Community College), 1980-82
The University of Delaware
Instructor in English, 1968-69.
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Medieval Literature
Dante
Chaucer
Medieval Spirituality
Franciscan Writers
Latin
Humanities
Shakespeare
The Bible
COURSES TAUGHT:
Dante
Chaucer
Humanities
Summer Humanities in New York City
Medieval Studies (team-taught, interdepartmental):
The Age of Francis of Assisi
Love and War in the Twelfth Century
The Age of Chaucer
The Age of Dante
Medieval Poetry and Cosmology
The Apocalyptic Tradition
Shakespeare (four different courses)
The Bible
Literary Forms:
Tragedy
Arthurian Romance
Mythology
Old English/Beowulf
Medieval British Literature
Medieval European Literature
British Literature I (beginnings to 1700)
Medieval Mysticism (Senior Seminar)
Writing 100
Three Summer Courses Abroad (team-taught):
Literature and Society in Chaucer's England
Literature and Society in Dante's Florence
France and England in the High Middle Ages
Latin
Elementary Latin
Medieval Latin
Reading courses in Virgil, Ovid, Augustine, Boethius, Benedict, Bonaventure
Honors 102 / 202 (Critical Reading)
Dante and African American Literature (team taught)
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PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Medieval World View, third edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Pp. xxi + 397 (with William R. Cook).
The Medieval World View, second edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004. Pp. xx + 320 (with William R Cook).
Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999 (Edited, with Graham N. Drake and Eve
Salisbury).
The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 244 (with Richard K. Emmerson). Chapter Five, “The Commedia:
Apocalypse, Church, and Dante’s Conversion,” rpt. in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard
Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 5, pp. 350-401.
La Vision Medieval Del Mundo, tr. Milagros Rivera Garreta. Barcelona: Editorial Vincens-Vives,
1985 (with William R. Cook).
The Medieval World View, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxiv + 366 (with
William R. Cook)
Articles and Chapters:
“Dante and the Frescoes at Santi Quatro Coronati,” Speculum 87.1(2012): 95-146 (with William
A. Stephany).
“Attica Educations: Dante in Exile,” PMLA 123 (2008): 697-701. Rpt. in Poetry and Criticism
vol. 108. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale 2010, pp. 225-228.
“‘Io non Eneä, io non Paolo sono’: Ulysses, Guido da Montefeltro, and Franciscan Traditions in
the Commedia,” Dante Studies 123 (2005, pub. 2008): 23-69.
Dante From Two Perspectives: The Sienese Connection, Bernardo Lecture Series 15
(Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007) (with William R.
Cook).
“Twenty-First Century Educations: Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers,” forthcoming
in in the Proceedings of the Waterford School Symposium, presented in October 2007.
“Francis of Assisi,” forthcoming in History of Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame
University Press.
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“What Dante Learned from St. Francis,” in Dante and the Franciscans, ed. Santa Casciana
(Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006), pp. 113-140 (with William R. Cook).
“‘I speak not yet of proof’: Dante and the Art of Assisi,” in The Art of the Franciscans in Italy,
ed. William R. Cook (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005), pp. 189-209
“Graduate Educations,” The Journal of Education 184 (2003): 23-35.
“From Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun,” in Dante for the New Millenium, eds.
Teodolinda Barolini and Wayne Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp.320333.
“Humanites Educations,” The Journal of Education 183(2002): 81-89.
“Medieval Outreach,” Medieval Academy of America News, November, 2001, p. 12.
“Catholic Educations,” First Things, October 2000, pp. 39-45.
The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (Garland, 2000), articles on:
“Francis of Assisi,” “Clement V,” “Apocalypse” (with Richard K. Emmerson), “Revelation”
(with Richard K. Emmerson), and “Prophecy”(with Richard K. Emmerson)
“ ‘Visibile Parlare’: Dante's Purgatorio 10 and Luca Signorelli's San Brizio Frescoes,” Studies in
Iconography 20 (1999):155-183.
“The Book of the City of Ladies as Twice Told Tale,” in Retelling Tales, ed. Thomas Hahn and
Alan Lupack (Boydell & Brewer, 1998), pp. 108-125.
“Confessions 7.9: What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?” Journal of Education 179 (1997):
49-60.
“Squaring the Circle: Paradiso 33 and The Poetics of Geometry,” Traditio 49 (1994): 95-125
(with Gary W. Towsley).
“Dante and the Apocalypse,” in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, eds. R. K. Emmerson and
Bernard McGinn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. 398-413. Rpt. in Dante: The
Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 5, pp.
402-417.
“Jacopone da Todi: The Aesthetics of Imprisonment,” Franziskanische Studien 72 (1990):
248-256 (with Weston L. Kennison).
“The Bible and the Schools: Some Reflections,” in Better Schools, Better Lives: An Invitation to
Dialogue. Boston: Boston University Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, 1990.
Pp. 21 - 26.
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“The Canterbury Tales in Eschatological Perspective,” in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in
the Middle Ages, ed. D. Verhelst et al (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988): 404-424 (with
Richard K. Emmerson).
“How to Write a Fellowship Proposal,” Humanities, Feb. 1987.
“The Apocalyptic Age of Hypocrisy: Faus Semblant and Amant in the Roman de la Rose,”
Speculum 62 (1987): 611-634 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
“Dante and Francis,” Franciscan Studies, 42 (1982; pub. 1986): 96-114. Rpt. in Dante: The
Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003). vol. 7, pp.
386-404.
“Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers,” School-College Collaborative Programs in
English, ed. Ron Fortune, New York: Modern Language Association, 1986, pp. 92-96.
“The Friar's Tale: Chaucer, Dante, and the Translatio Studii,” ACTA 9 (1985), 1-17.
“‘Let Us Seek Him Also’: Tropological Judgment in Twelfth-Century Art and Drama,” in
Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. Papers
by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald Herzman, and Pamela
Sheingorn. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Early Drama, Art and Music
Monograph Series 6, 1985, pp. 59-88.
“Roland and Romanesque: Biblical Iconography in The Song of Roland,” The Arts, Society, and
Literature, ed. Harry Garvin (Bucknell Review, vol. 29, Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University
Press, 1984), pp. 21-48 (with William R. Cook).
“From Chaucer to St. Francis,” Humanities 4(1983): 17-18.
“Dante In Attica,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 9(1982): 3-8 (with William R.
Cook).
“The Reeve's Tale, Symkyn, and Simon the Magician,” The American Benedictine Review, 33
(1982): 325-333.
“Simon the Magician and the Medieval Tradition,” Journal of Magic History, 2 (1980): 28-43
(with William R. Cook).
“Antichrist, Simon Magus, and Dante's Inferno 19,” Traditio, 36 (1980): 373-398 (with Richard
K. Emmerson).
“Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII,” Dante Studies 98 (1980): 53-77. Rpt. in
Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 7, Dante
and Interpretation, pp. 175-200.
“Inferno XXXIII: The Past and the Present in Dante's Imagery of Betrayal,” Italica 56 (1979):
377-383 (with William R. Cook).
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“‘0 miseri seguaci’: Sacramental Inversion in Inferno XIX,” Dante Studies 96 (1978): 39-65
(with William A. Stephany).
“Bonaventure's Life of St. Francis and the Frescoes in the Church of San Francesco: A Study in
Medieval Aesthetics,” Franziskanische Studien 59 (1977): 29-37 (with William R. Cook).
“Millstones: An Approach to The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale,” The English Record, 18
(1977): 18-21, 26.
“St. Eustace: A Note on Inferno XXVII,” Dante Studies 94 (1976): 137-139 (with William R.
Cook).
“Literature and Society in Chaucer's English: A Multidisciplinary Analysis,” Journal of English
Teaching Techniques, 8(1976): 26-35 (with William R. Cook).
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to Chaucer's England: A Multidisciplinary Analysis,” Exercise
Exchange, 18 (1974): 17-20 (with William R. Cook).
“The Paradox of Form: The Knight's Tale and Chaucerian Aesthetics,” Papers on Language and
Literature, 10 (1974): 339-352. Rpt. in Wege der Forschung: Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Willi
Erzgraber. Darmstadt: Wissensschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983, pp. 272-287.
“The Gateway of Art: Analogies as an Approach to Medieval Literature,” Exercise Exchange 17
(1973): 13-17 (with M. Kay Nellis).
“Stephen Spender: The Critic as Poet,” Notes on Contemporary Literature 3 (1973): 6-7.
“A Yeatsian Parallel in Richard Wilbur's ‘Merlin Enthralled,’” Notes on Contemporary
Literature 1 (1972): 10-11.
Audio Visual:
Literature of the Renaissance. Twelve Lecture Visual / Audio course as part of Great Authors of
the Western Literary Tradition, The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2004.
Augustine's Confessions. Twenty-four Lecture Visual / Audio course, The Great Courses. The
Teaching Company, 2004 (with William R. Cook).
Dante’s Divine Comedy. Twenty-four Lecture Visual / Audio course. The Great Courses. The
Teaching Company, 2001(with William R. Cook).
Discovering the Middle Ages. Twelve Lecture Visual Course, The Great Courses. The Teaching
Company, 2001 (with William R. Cook).
Francis of Assisi. Twelve Lecture Visual / Audio Course. The Great Courses. The Teaching
Company, 2000 (with William R. Cook).
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Dante's Life and Times, Dante's Literary Antecedents. Two Visual/Audio Lectures, part of Great
Authors of the Western Tradition. SuperStar Teachers. The Teaching Company, 1993 (with
William R. Cook).
Hell, Purgatory, Heaven: Dante's Divine Comedy. Eight Lecture Visual / Audio course for
SuperStar Teachers / The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 1993 (with William R.
Cook).
Reviews
Nick Havely, Dante, Speculum, 2009
Justin Steinberg, Accounting for Dante, Medievalia et Humanistica, 2007.
Nick Havely, Dante and the Franciscans, Speculum, 2006.
Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart, Speculum, 2003.
John Scott, Dante's Political Purgatory, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, 1996, on line.
Robert Fossier, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages: 1 350-950, Studies in
the Age of Chaucer (1993) .
John Saly, Dante's Paradiso: The Flowering of the Self, Church History, 1993.
Piero Boitani, The Tragic and The Sublime in Medieval Literature, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
13(1991): 165-8.
Robert Edwards, The Dreams of Chaucer, Envoi 2(1990): 307-311.
Antonio Crocco, ed., L'Eta dello Spirito e La Fine Dei Tempi in Gioacchino da Fiore e nel
Gioachimismo Medievale: Atti del II Congresso Internationale di Studi Giochimiti, Speculum
65(1990): 642-3.
Jeffrey Tambling, Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia, Studies in the Age of
Chaucer 11(1989): 327-331.
Penn Szittya, The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature, Envoi 1(1988): 176-181.
Patrick Diehl, The Medieval Religious Lyric: An Ars Poetica, Speculum 63(1988): 390-1.
Peter Dronke, Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 9(1987):
209-212.
Joan M. Ferrante, The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy and Stewart Farnell, The Political
Ideas of the Divine Comedy, Italica, 63(1986): 306-310.
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V.A. Kolve, Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 7(1985):
212-218 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
A. Bartlett Giamatti, ed., Dante in America, The First Two Centuries, Speculum, 60(1985):
678-9.
John V. Fleming, From Bonaventure to Bellini: An Essay in Franciscan Exegesis, Studies in the
Age of Chaucer, 6(1984): 189-192.
Richard K. Emmerson, Antichrist in the Middle Ages, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 5(1983):
164-166.
Richard Kay, Dante's Swift and Strong, Modern Philology, 78(1980): 75-78.
Lincoln Cathedral Manuscript Library, Microform Review, 8(1979): 218-220.
Lars Lonroth, Njal's Saga: A Critical Introduction, Oral History Review 1976, pp. 75-76.
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SELECTED PAPERS AND LECTURES:
“’Siena mi fé’: Teaching Dante in Italy," Teaching and Learning Center, SUNY Geneseo,
October 2012.
"The Enduring Significance of Francis," Sister Ruth Agnes Ahlers Theology Lecture Series,
Briar Cliff University, October 2011.
“Francis,” Plenary Lectures at Briar Cliff University, October 2011.
“’Speak of me as I am’: Othello Now and Then,” NEH Distinguished Professorship in the
Humanities Lecture, University of North Carolina, Ashville, April 2011.
“Holy, Passionate, and Brilliant: The Enduring Significance of Francis of Assisi,” St. Francis
Episcopal Church, Palos Verdes Estates, CA, October 2010.
“Dante and the Frescoes at Santi Quattro Coronati,” Seminar, University of Notre Dame, Devers
Program in Dante, March 2010.
“Dante's Francis,” Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Devers Program in Dante, March 2010.
“Dante Comes to the UN,” Histoical Voices Lecture Series, United Nations Association of
Rochester, October 2009.
“Dante, the Apocalypse, and the Frescoes at Santi Quattro Coronati,” Conference on “The
Apocalypse and Italian Culture,” Cambridge University, October 2009.
“Hamlet, Repentence, and Revenge,” The Pearson Curtis Lecture, the Stony Brook School,
February 2009.
“Francis’ Life and Times,” and “Understanding the Life of Francis Through Art,” Nineteenth
Annual Leadership Conference, St. Francis Health Services, South Bend Indiana, October 2008
(with William R. Cook).
“Teaching Saint Francis at a State University,” Plenary Address, Association of Franciscan
Colleges and Universities, Alvernia College, June 2008 (with William Cook, Wes Kennison, and
Gary Towsley).
Invited Participant, “Dante and Liberty,” Liberty Fund Seminars, Dallas, February 2007.
“Dante From Two Perspectives: The Sienese Connection,” Bernardo Lecture 17, Binghamton
University, November 2007 (with William R. Cook).
“Beyond the Inferno: Reading Dante’s Purgatorio,” Vermont Humanities Council, October 2007
(with William R. Cook).
“Twenty-First Century Educations: Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers,” Waterford
School Symposium, October 2007.
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“Monastic (Un)Masking: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Dante’s Inferno 27,” Keynote
Address, University of Florida Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Conference on
Masks and Carnival, January, 2006.
Lectures on Dante, Chaucer, St. Augustine, St. Francis, Shakespeare, the Renaissance, Arthurian
Literature, The Bible, Renaissance Weekend : Charleston, South Carolina, December 2005,
2006, 2007; Tuscon, Arizona, 2009; Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2010; Liguna Niguel,
California 2011; Monterey, California 2012.
“Four Cultures of Academe,” Presentation to faculty and staff, the Waterford School, Sandy,
Utah, October 2005.
“Connecting the Dots,” Plenary Address, COPLAC Conference, University of North Carolina at
Asheville, May, 2005.
Dante Workshop, International Institute for Culture, Philadephia, October 2004. A shorter
version was presented at the First Unitarian Church, Buffalo, New York in November, 2004, and
at the First Unitarian Chruch, Vero Beach, Florida, February 2006, and February 2007 (with
William R. Cook).
“St. Bernard in the Middle Ages and in Dante,” two lectures given at the Abbey of the Genesee,
March 2005 (With William R.Cook).
“Humanities Educations,” The Power of the Liberal Arts in the Classroom: Center for School
Improvement at Boston University, May 2003.
“Dante's Ulysses: A Man for All Seasons?” The Pearson Curtis Lecture, The Stony Brook
School, March 2003. Also given at the Montclair Kimberley Academy.
“Dante’s Inferno,” documentary broadcast on The Learning Channel, February 2002,
commentator (with Robert Pinsky, William Cook, and others).
“What Dante Learned from St. Francis,” E. M. Wiegand Public Lecture, Santa Catalina School,
January 2002 (with William R. Cook). Another version of this talk was presented at the
University of Rochester, February, 2005.
“Medieval Outreach,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, May 2001.
“Eschatology in the Sun,” Dante2000, Columbia University, April 2000.
“’I am not Aeneas. I am not Paul either’: Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro in the Inferno,”
Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, University of Delaware, March 1999.
E. M.Wiegand Lecturer, Santa Catalina School, Monterey, California, January 1999, January
2000, January 2001, January 2002, January 2003, January 2004: “Dante and Giotto,” “From the
Classical World to the Middle Ages,” “Dante for Now” (Also presented at the Montclair
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Kimberley Academy, January 2001), “Dante and Mysticism,” “Dante and the Papacy,” Lectures
on Chaucer, Dante, Augustine, Church History, and Shakespeare.
“Dante, Francis, and the Circle of the Sun,” The Cornelius Lowe Lecture in Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, November 1998 (with William R. Cook).
"The Divine Comedy," 30 hour Faculty Workshop, Montclair Kimberley Academy, June 1998
(with William Cook).
“Dante's Purgatorio 10 and Luca Signorelli's San Brizio Frescoes,” Renaissance Association of
the Pacific Northwest, April 1998.
Jefferson Scholar: Bancroft School, 1997; Montclair Kimberley Academy, 1998, 2000.
“Squaring the Circle,” Medieval House, University of Rochester, April 1994.
“The Apocalypse in Art,” Six-hour workshop, Portland Teachers Academy, March 1993.
Gold Key Address, Princeton High School, May 1992.
“A Modern Idol,” Honors Convocation Address, Manhattan College, October 1991.
“The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages,” three lectures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
May 1991.
“Francis and Franciscan Spirituality,” Seven Lectures presented at the Abbey of the Genesee,
October - November 1989 (with William R. Cook).
“Wolfram's Parzival: An Introduction,” Medieval House, University of Rochester, October 1989.
“Dante and Apocalypticism,” Twenty-fourth Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, May 1989.
“The Bible and the Schools: Some Reflections,” Conference on Ethics and Character, Boston
University Sesquicentennial, March 1989.
“Franciscan Backgrounds to the Friar's Tale and The Summoner's Tale,” Brown University,
March 1989 (with William R. Cook).
“The Bible,” NEH Faculty Development Grant, Great Neck North High School, May 1989.
“Teaching the Humanities” Connetquot School District, Long Island, April 1988.
“The Medieval World,” “Dante,” “St. Francis,” lectures at Western Kentucky University, March
1988 (With William R. Cook).
“Bonaventure's Legenda Maior: Some Apocalyptic Concerns” Twenty Second Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1987.
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“The Apocalyptic Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale,” Medieval House, University of Rochester,
October 1987.
“The Medieval World,” keynote lecture at Marymount College NEH Teachers Institute, Summer
1985, 1987.
“Dante's World,” Hobart and William Smith Colleges, December 1986 (with William R. Cook).
“Jacopone da Todi: The Aesthetics of Obedience,” Paper presented at the Twenty-first Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1986 (with Weston L. Kennison).
“Franciscan Studies, Franciscan Teaching,” American Association of Italian Studies, University
of Toronto, April 1986.
“From Apocalypticism to Antifraternalism: The Bible, Faus Semblant, and the Romance of the
Rose,” Nineteenth Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY
Binghamton, October 1985 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
"The World of the Middle Ages," Wellesley College, September 1985 (with William R. Cook).
Visiting Faculty Member, Dartmouth Dante Institute, to run workshop on teaching the Divine
Comedy, Summer 1985, 1986 (with William R. Cook).
“Biblical Prophecy, The Middle Ages, and the Modern World,’ The MacVittie Lecture, SUNY at
Geneseo, November 1984 (with William R. Cook).
“The Canterbury Tales in Eschatological Perspective,” Thirteenth Colloquium of the Instituut
voor Middeleeuwse Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 1984 (with Richard Kenneth
Emmerson).
“The Infernal Humanities,” Phi Beta Kappa Address, Manhattan College, April 1984.
Lectures on Dante, Chaucer, St. Francis, and Introducing the Middle Ages at the University of
Maryland, Mary Washington College, Cardinal Forest School, and Keene Mill Elementary
School, 1983-84.
“What Should A Teacher Know?” Portland, Maine, May 1983 (with William R. Cook).
“St. Francis and Dante in the Commedia,” Seventeenth Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, May 1982.
“Dante and St. Francis,” Dante Symposium, Medieval House, University of Rochester, April
1982.
“The Friar's Tale: Chaucer, Dante, and the Translatio Studii,” ACTA Conference, SUNY
Binghamton, April 1982.
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“Dante and the Frescoes in the Spanish Chapel,” University of Colorado, March 1982.
“Dante in Attica,” Sixteenth Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May
1981 (with William R. Cook).
“Simon Magus and Late Medieval Literature: Chaucer,” ACTA Conference, SUNY Binghamton,
April 1981.
“Teaching in the Text: Bonaventure's Life of St. Francis,” six-hour workshop, National
Humanities Faculty Summer Workshop, Wells College, July 1980 (with William R. Cook). "
“Dante's Romanesque World,” Fifteenth Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, May 1980 (with William R. Cook).
“Introduction to the Medieval World View,” Northeast Wisconsin Educational Association,
March 1980; Genesee Community College, November 1979; Mohawk Valley Community
College, March 1980; LeRoy Central School, February 1980 (with William R. Cook).
“Medieval Art and Drama,” three lectures, Abbey of the Genesee, January-February 1980 (with
William R. Cook).
“The Humanities and Contemporary Humbug, program recorded at the National Humanities
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, December 1979, and broadcast on National Public Radio, as
part of "Soundings" series (with Joseph Adelson, William J. Bennett, William R. Cook, and
Steven Tigner).
“Sin and Punishment in Medieval Art and Drama: Twelfth-Century Drama,” MLA, December
1979.
“Interdisciplinary Teaching,” two lectures at National Humanities Faculty Summer Institute for
Two-year Colleges, University of Rhode Island, Summer 1979 (with William R. Cook).
“The Church in the Middle Ages,” as part of a program entitled "Institutions and Experience:
Two Case Studies in the Function of the Humanities," Western Maryland College, December
1978 (with William J. Bennett, William R. Cook, and Edwin J. Delattre).
“Roland and Romanesque: Some Iconographic Similarities,” Thirteenth Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1978 (with William R. Cook).
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Middle Ages: The Medieval World View in Words and
Pictures,” American Historical Association Conference on History Teaching, SUNY Fredonia,
March 1978 (with William R. Cook).
“The Tympana of Conques and Amiens: Continuity and Change,” Medieval Studies Section of
Humanities Program, Western Kentucky University, March 1978; “The Medieval World View,”
public lecture, Western Kentucky University (with William R. Cook).
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“Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno 19,” Twelfth Conference on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, May 1977.
"Teaching the Medieval World View," Harvard-Danforth Colloquium on the Teaching of
History, Harvard University, April 1977 (with William R. Cook).
“Chaucer,” four lectures, Abbey of the Genesee, January 1977.
“Millstones: An Approach to The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale,” New York State College
English Association, October 1976.
“Sacramental Inversion in Inferno XIX,” Ohio Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Cleveland,
October 1976; also presented at Medieval House, University of Rochester, May 1977 (with
William A. Stephany).
“The Medieval World View,” Medieval Colloquium of the Lehigh Valley, Cedar Crest College,
October 1976 (with William R. Cook).
“Bonventure's Life of St. Francis and the Frescoes in the Church of San Francesco: A Study in
Medieval Aesthetics,” Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
May 1976 (with William R. Cook).
“Medieval Aesthetics, Literature, and Society,” lecture series at the Abbey of the Holy Spirit,
Conyers GA; and Mepkin Abbey, SC (with William R. Cook).
“Dante,” ten lectures, The Abbey of the Genesee, December-February 1976 (with William R.
Cook).
“Teaching and Illustrating the Medieval World View: A Workshop,” Pacific Coast Branch,
American Historical Association, Berkeley, CA, August 1975 (with William R. Cook).
“Principles of Medieval Aesthetics,” Medieval House, University of Rochester, February 1975;
also presented at Mt. Savior Monastery, Pine City, New York; The Abbey of the Genesee,
Piffard, New York; and The Abbey of New Clairvaux, Vina, CA (with William R. Cook).
“Medieval Art and Aesthetics,” four lectures, St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, MA., June 1974.
Spencer Tape Library C 54 (with William R. Cook).
“The Institutional Church in Fourteenth-Century England: A Multidisciplinary Analysis,” Ninth
Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1974 (with William R.
Cook).
“The Knight's Tale and Chaucerian Aesthetics,” Eighth Conference on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, May, 1973.
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AWARDS:
Director, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for School Teachers:
Dante's Commedia, Siena and Assisi Italy, Summer 1988; SUNY Geneseo, Summer 1989.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, SUNY Geneseo, Summer 1990, Summer 1991, Summer 1993.
Dante's Commedia: St. John's College, Santa Fe, Summer 1996, 1998.
Co-Director, "Dante’s Commedia": Siena Italy, Summer 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 (with William Stephany).
Art Hatton Award for Excellence in College Advancement, 2012.
Geneseo Alumni Association, Honorary Membership, 2011.
Who’s Who in America, 2010
Phi Beta Kappa, Foundation Member, SUNY Geneseo, 2004
Medieval Academy of America: First Annual CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching
Medieval Studies, April 2003.
Spencer J. Roemer Fellowship, Summer 1994.
Commencement Speaker, Groveland Correctional Facility, January 1993.
Commencement Speaker, SUNY Geneseo, May 1992.
L.H.D. honoris causa, Manhattan College, 1991.
New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award, 1990.
State University of New York: Appointed Faculty Exchange Scholar, 1981Commencement Speaker, Attica Correctional Facility, 1980 (with William R. Cook).
National Endowment for the Humanities: Residential Fellow, University of Chicago, 1978-1979.
Member, National Humanities Faculty: 1978State University of New York: Research Grants 1976, 1979, 1981.
State University of New York: Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1976.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminar, Princeton University 1973.
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SELECTED DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE SERVICE:
College Honors Program (Edgar Fellows Program): Acting Director, 2000; Co-Director, 20052013.
Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff, “Shaping Lives of Purpose: Camapign for Geneseo,” 2011-2012.
Lecturer, Summer Alumni Trip to Tuscany, 2011, 2012.
Academic Standards Committee
Humanities Core Committee (twice chair)
Faculty Development Committee
Faculty Personnel Committee (chair)
Department Policy Committee
Department Personnel Committee (three times chair)
Faculty Senate
Undergraduate Academic Affairs Committee
Graduate Academic Affairs Committee
Faculty Affairs Committee
Faculty Leave Review Committee
Student Grant Awards Committee
College Research Council (chair)
Provost Search Committee (twice chair)
Pre-Medical Advisory Committee
Committee on Student Fellowships (chair)
Siena Advisory Committee / Foreign Studies Advisory Committee
English Club Advisor
Excellence in Teaching Committee ( three times chair)
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee
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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Reader: PMLA, Modern Philology, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Papers On Language and
Literature, Traditio, Speculum, Comparative Drama, Chaucer Review, Medievalia, Harper and
Row, Hackett, Palgrave Macmillan, Shambala Press, University of Georgia Press, University of
Delaware Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Stanford University Press, University of
Florida Press, Oxford University Press.
Dante Society of America, Selection Committee, Dante Prize, 2012-.
Advisory Board, “Teaching Dante,” website project sponsored by the University of Virginia and
the National Endowment for the Humanities,” 2007PhD Dissertation Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008; Yale Univeristy, 2009
Medieval Academy of America, Kalamazoo Program Committee, 2004; Chair 2005-8.
Academic Content Reviewer, K12 Inc., 2003-4.
(Selected) Lectures to Church Adult Education Programs, to High Schools and to other groups on
Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Francis of Assisi and other religious, medieval and
renaissance subjects: Most recently, Dante, First Fridays, Andover New York, 2012; Chaucer at
Saratoga (CA) High School, 2012; Dante at Branham (CA) High School, 2010, Brooklyn Friends
School, 2009, Geneseo Central School, 1996-2009, Webster High School, 2004-2007, The John
Cooper School, The Waterford School, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Regis High School,
Scotts Valley (CA) High School; Twelve Session Course on the Book of Revelation (2004 with
Wes Kennison), Geneseo United Methodist Church; four sessions on Islam (2005-6), six sessions
on Genesis (2006-7), four sessions on Matthew’s Gospel, four sessions on Acts of the Apostles
(2008), Central Presbyterian Church, Geneseo; Brown bag lunches for Parents Association,
Montclair Kimberley Academy. Speaker, Geneseo Central School Honors Banquet, 2007; Book
reviewer, Geneseo Ecumenical Book Group.
Panelist, NEH: Division of Fellowships and Seminars, 1986, 1991; Division of Educational
Program, 1986; Reviewer, Division of Research Programs, 1987; Reviewer, Division of
Educational Programs, 1988; Appointed to 3-year standing panel, Division of Education
Programs, 1988, Panelist, 1989, 1990, Study Grants, 1994; Research Programs, 2006
Tenure Review Consultant, University of Rochester, 1996; Claremont McKenna College, 2002;
Promotion Review, Western Michigan University, 2009.
Executive Council, Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), 1993-98.
Facilitator, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MI, Summer Humanities Institute, 1992.
Scholar-in-Residence, Portland Teachers Academy, Summer 1992.
MA Thesis Reader, Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University, 1990.
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Outside Reader, Honors Thesis, Hobart College, May 1989.
Steering Committee, The Madison Center, Washington, D.C., April 1989.
American Association of School Administrators, Planning Grant Committee, 1988.
Planning Committee, Higher Education for State Prisons, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1987.
MA, PhD Examination Committee in Medieval History, Georgetown University, 1986-1988.
Member Portland Academy. 1986. Portland/Falmouth Teacher's Institute, Faculty, Summer 1986,
Fall 1986, Spring 1987, Summer 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988.
Chair, session on "Drama and Iconography," Twenty-first Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, May 1986.
State University of New York: Faculty Exchange Scholar, Mohawk Valley Community College,
January 1982; Genesee Community College, February 1982.
Speaker at National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Community College
General Education, July 1981 (with William R. Cook).
Organized "Learning in Exile," Dante Conference at Attica Correctional Facility, Fall 1981 (with
William R. Cook).
Chair and Moderator of Dante Session at Fourteenth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, May 1979.
National Humanities Faculty: Advisor and Administrator, Three-year Grant for Humanities
Education in Community Colleges, Genesee Community College, 1978-81 (with William R.
Cook).
National Humanities Faculty: Consultant to Portland Maine Public Schools, August 1978;
Ypsilanti Michigan Public Schools, May 1981 (with William R. Cook).
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